A Photographic Tour

Uptown Capitol The Texas Chili Parlor is a popular The Texas State Capitol (15 feet taller than restaurant and local landmark in a the National Capitol in Washington, DC) and district with an eclectic mix of state the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum associations, restaurants, churches, art are major visitor attractions in a district galleries and residential towers. The dominated by State government buildings. Judge’s Hill district is bordered on the north by the Other popular attractions include the State University of Texas at Austin, on the east Archives and Library, the Capitol Visitors The only remaining almost entirely by the State Capitol complex and on the Center and Scholz Garten restaurant and University residential neighborhood in downtown, south by the Travis County complex, and biergarten. Judges Hill, in the far northwest corner the district reects these inuences. The Frank C. Erwin, Jr. Special Events Center, the of downtown, is a quiet, tree-lined area Pennick-Allison Tennis Center and the University with an eclectic mix of large, historic of Texas Nursing School occupy an extension of homes and more modern structures. the University of Texas at Austin campus into the northeast corner of downtown.

WÆ University Ave AT&T Executive Jack S. Blanton ^ Education and Museum of Art Jamail Texas ¯ Swimming Center WÆ The Mansion at Conference Center ñ Judge’s Hill Old 19th St W Martin Luther King Jr Blvd WÆ The Inn at Pearl Street Jack Brown Taco N Ih 35 Svrd Sb Cleaners Cabana Mr. Wendy's Bob Bullock ^ Gatti's Texas State Trinity Garage Cambridge History Museum

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Pearl St ^ Tower System Building Penthouse ^ ¯ñ Lantana Apartments Chestnut Square W.O. Harper Pease Plumbing Greenwood Lavaca St Park W 18th St W 18th St Guadalupe St Towers WÆ ^ E 18th St SHOAL CREEK E 18th St Club Hotel Ambassador P by Doubletree ^ ! Scottish CongressAve Building ^ Center for Rite Women & Temple their Work William B. Travis ^ 1700 Stephen F. Austin Central Services ¯ Building Garage R Nursing Rio Grande ñ Building Building Rio Dog & Duck La Vista School News 8 Texas House ^ Pub on El Lavaca Austin Tennis W 17th St Mercado Center Congress ‘Dillo Frank ^ E 17th St Erwin !P Center ^ Gammon E 16th St Insurance Lyndon B. Johnson Garage G Shoal Creek Blvd Building Meridian 1616 Garage E ^ Executive Guadalupe Garage Q ^ Plaza The Clay ^Pit Texas Historical Garage B Olander St W 16th St Commission E 16th St ^ ^ Centennial ^ Texas Historical Park Garage J Commission Garage P (UT) ^ St. Martin's Lutheran Capitol ^ Church Robert E. Johnson ^ Wells William P. Clements Complex Building Olander St !P Fargo Building Childcare Tower

W 15th St E 15th St W 15th St Caswell^ 1411 Humanities Texas ^ Texas Law Colorado St ^ House West Ave. Texas Medical WÆ Center Association Doubletree John H. Reagan Texas Workforce Texas Workforce !P Building Commission Building

Nueces St ^ Ave West 1400 Commission Annex Rio Grande St Garage A Rio Grande Texas Texas Chili

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Restaurant St Brazos Apartments ^ Parlor Brackenridge Clinical ^ Association ^ Annex Education House W 14th St Center Northwest Capitol E 14th St Park ^ ^ stadium Extension University R Brackenridge ²³ First Church Price Daniel (underground) Medical Hospital Professional Tree-lined streets with residential-scaled buildings (most often of Christ Building Center at Austin Scientist Supreme WALLER Building Brackenridge converted to business uses) characterize the Northwest area of Recreation W 13th Half St Court Sam Houston Brackenridge EmergencyAcces University Medical Center at Brackenridge Hospital ^ Building Building downtown, which is also home to Austin Community College’s Rio Center Texas Garage F and other related buildings overlook Waller Creek and ^ Oil & Gas garage Grande campus, Pease Elementary School (the oldest continuously Association ^ the nearly eleven acre Waterloo Park, home to popular operating school in the state of Texas), House Park Stadium, the Parkway W 13th St Austin events like blues festivals, Juneteenth

Penthouse ‘Dillo Congress Austin Recreation Center and the Duncan Park BMX track. Texas Travis Congress ‘Dillo Super 8 celebrations and Spamarama. Condominiums Waterloo CREEK Austin Association County 1220 Austin Colorado HealthSouth WÆ Land & of Counties E.O.B. P Community ^ ! Rehabilitation Cattle Park Baylor St College Hospital Shoal Creek Blvd ^ Visitor Austin - State Archives Parking Java Rio Grande & Library Garage Texas Campus Texas State Brick

Colorado St Municipal House Teachers Association First Texas Oven The ^ ^^ Methodist Retirement Tavern Park State Capitol Pizza Bar B Que Church system W 12th St E 12th St Red River Einstein Word ACC Bagels Bookstore ^ of Mouth Central 1108 Velocity Red River Street has become Catering Christian Lavaca Westgate Annex Church Tower State the center of downtown

Wiggy's Sabine St Tate n Insurance Capitol Building Austin’s live music scene, with Austin Pease Visitors Serrano's^ Velocity Hahn Elementary Granger St. Elias Credit clubs like Stubbs, Red Eyed Fly, Center Texas W 11th St School Eastern ^ Building ^ La Quinta Union Orthodox Association Emo’s, Club de Ville, Mohawk, (Travis Co.) WÆ Hotel !P Wink Whole Church of ^^Symphony Earth W 11th St Broadcasters Square Elysium, Room 710, Symphony Provision E 11th St Co. ^ Square and Beerland, as well as ^ Regency St River Red Courthouse James Earl State Dewitt C. Greer associated businesses like True Annex Rudder Insurance Travis Building Criminal Building Annex Blue Tattoo shown here. Justice County ^ ^ Sheraton Center Courthouse Governor's

Lavaca St Hotel Old 1005 ^ County Guadalupe St Mansion ^ ^ Regency ^ Thomas Jefferson O l d Jail Bakery Congress Teacher Retirement WÆ South Rusk Building System Building W e s t ^ W 10th St Cheapo E 10th St E 10th St A u s t i n Discs ^ ^ Old German Ernest O. ^ ^ Free School^ Thompson ^Little Capitol St. Mary's Mohawk Waller Creek ^ Building ^ City Center ¯ñ ^ Cathedral Center Wildflower Shoal Duncan Wooldridge ^ First Red Park Square ^ Baptist Creek AT&T ^ River Saloon ^ ^ Thornberry Church Flats ^ ^ Building Prosperity ^ Club Civic Bank de Ville W 9th St Austin ^ E 9th St A National Register Historic District, the Bremond Block is a key Sports Austin History Center Austin Museum The ^ Car Duncan of Art - Downtown Nokonah cÆ ^ ¯ñ landmark in the Civic District, home to the Travis County Park 816 Congress !P BMX 823 Congress

Courthouse and Criminal Justice Complex, the U.S. Courthouse, the N IH-35 sb N IH-35 nb Baylor St ^ ^ !P Austin History Center and the John Henry Faulk Central Library, and !P Henry Faulk Federal Central Jaime's cÆ ^ ^ Brazos Central Library Courthouse Presbyterian Pickle !P Spanish ^ Hickory Place many other civic uses. Many of the residential buildings in the area ^ Church Building Village Stubbs W 8th St Street are now home to law o ces serving these civic uses. E 8th St ^ ^ Austin ^ ^ ^ Women's Club Brown ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ State Theater OMNI Hotel !P Building Salvation APD ^ Bremond 700 WÆ Room Block ^ Paramount Theater Army Red Eyed Headquarters N Lamar Blvd ^ Lavaca 710 !P ^ !P Fly Aziz ^ ^ ^ Austin !P Henderson St ^ St. David's Beerland Emeralds ^ Lavaca Norwood Intercontinental - Center ^ Colorado Episcopal ^ Building Tower Stephen F. Austin ARCH Municipal Building ^ Church arthouse ^ WÆ Hotel Elysium Court W 7th St Waterloo Book E 7th St Ice House Anthropologie People !P Ranch ^ ^ ^ !P Southwest Wood St Posada Ashbel Smith !P Caritas Waterloo GSD&M !P 616 del Rey Tower REI Aquarelle Hall !P of Austin Records Idea City ^ True Blue Extended Driskill Tattoo 300 One ^ !P StayAmerica Claudia Taylor American Hotel Old Opal Star W. 6th O. Henry Chico's Little Hotel Johnson Hall Center Pecan Emo's Devine's Katz's WÆ Hall Littlefield WÆ Iron Bar Woodrow's Bess Thistle Street Brushy St ^Building ^ ^^ ^ Boiling Cafe ^^^Cafe ^Cactus ^ ^^ ^^ ^ ^ 6th St. ‘Dillo Pot ^ By George W 6th St 6th St. ‘Dillo E 6th St Hut's Mother The Molotov Thai Egan's Hoffbrau !P Miller The Ruth's ^ ^ Zanzibar Tara JP Morgan ^ Keeper's ^ ^ Parkside ^^^ ^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^

Frank & Blueprint Neches St Esther's Whole Belmont Chase Chris Habana Angie's Starr Visitor's Follies Foods Post Bank Scarbrough Center Chez CREEK Building Office Bank of Nous Texenza Building America Coffee Lottery Hilton West Ave West Lavaca Center ^ Austin Commission Garden Jackson P Ovation Carmelo's City Lofts ! Plaza ^ ^ Sabine St Ruiz SHOAL !P !P Sabine Inn Avenue Lofts !P !P ^ on 5th WÆ 6th St. ‘Dillo W 5th St 6th St. ‘Dillo E 5th St Mexic-arte Pure Lucky ^ ^ Whiskey Antone's Kenichi Museum Northeast Austin Republic Plaza Lounge ¯ñ O Henry Museum Square Lofts Bar Red Brazos Lofts ¯ñ ^ Gym The 404 New Hilton !P Fez ^ McCormick Austin Monarch Rio Grande Federal ^ Speakeasy Starlite & Schmick's Convention Several large, historic churches, including St. Mary’s Courthouse ^ Nueces St Brush WÆ Center Bowie St Vicci Rio Grande St Cedar La Zona Mellow !PPP Residence Courtyard Square Garage Cathedral shown here, are a major presence in the The Street Frost Bank Rosa Johnny's !P Inn WÆ by Marriott Finn & Gingerman !P Tower P Halcyon Fado Truluck's American Youthworks ! Northeast District, along with a mix of state and 300 Champions Porter N. Lamar W 4th St federal o ces, hotels and social service agencies. Spring E 4th St Spaghetti Energy 219 Qua ^ ^ ^ !P Warehouse Gables Control west ^ ^ Railyard Condominiums West Avenue Center SIX State AMOA Imperia La Traviata ^ Museum State Parking Tower Colorado St Manuel's W 3rd St 360 Hobby Garage CREEK Lavaca St Sullivan's Condos P Building ! Guadalupe St 301 SanAntonio St Steakhouse !P Rio !P Congress Moonshine Grande ^ ^ W 3rd St E 3rd St W. 6th St. ^ Austin Ballet Cantina E. 6th St. Which Music P ^ Austin Wich Laredo ! Melting Foca Hall E 3rd St Pot de Chão Katz’s, a long-established landmark, is at the heart of Gables AMLI W Austin Hotel AMLI Austin The “historic” entertainment !P !P ‘Dillo Congress Park Plaza on 2nd and Residences Downtown Children's a new restaurant/entertainment district emerging on Palm ^ Museum The Hampton Inn district of Austin, the & Suites Neil Kocurek Memorial Park West Sixth Street in conjunction with a high-rise ¯ñ Austonian Cedar P.F. Roy's Malaga !P St River Red WALLER seven-block entertainment area Taverna Jo's Door WÆ Chang's Fleming's Austin Convention Center residential neighborhood centered just to the south Sandra Muraida Way stretches from the Driskill Hotel Seaholm W 2nd St E 2nd St around the intersection of 5th and West Avenue. Power Lambert's to I-35, and has over 30 historic ^ Mongolian Plant Congress ‘Dillo Convention Thomas Green Austin Grille Center landmarks, and dozens of Water Treatment Plant City Hall !P !P Garage Déjà B R Reynolds Dr Silicon CSC The 100 One Vu Travis County restaurants, clubs, and retail Labs Ashton Congress Congress Trinity St !P Health Dept. Iron

Plaza Brazos St businesses. Sixth Street is also City Hall III Works ^ Plaza Taste Doña Barbecue home to many Austin events, Forks !P San Jacinto Blvd Emilia's Palm School like the Austin Mardi Gras E Cesar Chavez St celebration, SXSW, the Republic Buford Hike ‘n’ Bike Trail Tower Lone of Texas Bikers Rally, the Pecan Radisson Star TGI WÆ !P Hotel 98 Four Gazebo Friday's IHOP Street Festival and Sixth Street’s San Jacinto Seasons Residences Driskill St Halloween celebration. Lamar Boulevard Four Seasons James D. Pfluger Hotel Bridge Lakeside Pedestrian & WÆ Apartments Bicycle Bridge

Drake Lady Bird Lake Bridge Davis St

Stevie Ray Ann Richards Vaughn Congress Avenue Hike ‘n’ Bike Trail statue Bridge Fannie The Villas Davis on Town Lake Gazebo Town Lake Rowing Center

Lone Star The Riverboat Cruises Shore Rainey St n !P West End Auditorium W Riverside Dr Shores !P Taylor St Anchored by Whole Foods’ agship store and corporate ^ WÆ Hyatt headquarters, the West End (also known as the Market Regency ¯ñ District) is an active shopping district with dozens of Hotel Mexican-American Rainey Street Bridges Cultural Center local and national retailers like Waterloo Records, REI, on the Park Bat The Mexican-American Cultural Center lies near the foot of Austin Java, Anthropologie and Book People. Twoomey Rd Butler Bicentennial Watching Pitch 'n' Putt Fountain the Rainey Street district, which is being transformed from Area Golf Course River St a cottage-scaled single family neighborhood to a high-rise Butler neighborhood of condos and apartments. Park Your Living Austin Room American-Statesman Long Center for the Butler Rd Lee Barton Dr Performing Arts !P RunTex Palmer Events Center The Lambie St Milago

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WEST BOULDIN CREEK Arts Center Legacy South First !P Parking Garage South First Town Lake

Threadgill's Barton Springs Rd Congress ‘Dillo Congress South Cummings St Clermont Ave

Towers of Town Lake Dawson Rd Town Lake Center Haywood Ave One Bouldin Ave Daniel Dr Texas Center Hike ‘n’ Bike Trail San Marcos St Flores St

Seaholm Holiday Inn Town Lake WÆ The Seaholm District is a former industrial section of southwest downtown Austin that is undergoing a transformation into a vibrant urban neighborhood. At the core of the district is the decommissioned Seaholm Power Plant which will be redeveloped into a landmark residential and retail destination. East of the power plant, on the banks of Shoal Creek, is the site of the planned new Austin Central Library.

2nd Street The 2nd Street District is a lively mix of o ces, mid-rise apartments, restaurants, Convention Center sidewalk cafes, retail and Austin City Hall, Congress Avenue designed around a vibrant streetscape. The The 880,000 square foot Neal Kocurek Memorial Austin W Austin Hotel and Residences, along with Warehouse The historic Paramount Theater and adjacent State Theater are Convention Center anchors a district with a large number of jewels on the “Main Street of Texas,” home to Austin’s high-rise o ce a new Austin City Limits studio/venue, will Stretching 5 blocks west from Congress Avenue, past hotels and restaurants catering to Austin’s visitor industry. buildings, cultural venues like Austin Museum of Art, Arthouse, soon complete the six-block district, which Republic Square to the banks of Shoal Creek, the Warehouse Here you can nd popular national chains such as P.F. Mexic-Arte, and a resurgent retail scene. Congress Avenue is will be expanded westward with the District has emerged in the past 15 years as a trendy and Chang’s and Finn & Porter, as well as local favorites including anchored on the north by the Texas State Capitol and on the south redevelopment of the Thomas C. Green upscale entertainment area, with dozens of restaurants, Iron Works Barbecue, Moonshine and the Cedar Door. by the Ann Richards Congress Avenue Bridge, summer home to 1.5 Water Treatment Plant. nightclubs and music venues, such as Antone’s, Starlite, La Lakefront Legend million Mexican-Freetailed Bats. Zona Rosa and the Lucky Lounge. !P Public Parking Wrapping around Lady Bird Lake in the heart of Austin, the Lakefront is ^ Historic Landmarks best known for the 10-mile trail serving thousands of outdoor and cÆ Libraries tness enthusiasts every day. The trail is a lush, urban hike-and-bike ¯ñ Museums Feet NOTE: This map was designed for visitors and residents, to provide a "snapshot" of each of the 19 districts of downtown Austin. Districts described on this map are for this purpose only, and have no official status. path that is arguably Austin’s most recognized and popular recreational ²³R Recreation Centers This map has been produced by the City of Austin for the sole purpose stated above, and is not warranted for any other use. area. A meeting point for recreation, concerts, fairs, the arts and more, n Elementary Schools N Photography and map by Michael Knox, City of Austin, Economic Growth & Redevelopment Services Office WÆ 0 400 the district and trail attract some 1.5 million annual visits. Hotels